Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other, more pertinent reasons for mourning Lennon's passing. He was not simply the megastar founder of a legendary rock group but a demonstrably troubled man who seemed to be in the process of beating back his demons. After five years of mysterious silence, he had released a new album, Double Fantasy, on which he and his wife Yoko Ono alternately performed love songs. Suddenly Lennon was dominating the airwaves again with his hit single from the album, Starting Over. And he was talking to reporters, telling interviewers about his life as a househusband, baking bread and caring...
...thing, the much heralded marriage was on the rocks and headed for worse. Yoko told a confidant of her plans to divorce her husband after the work on Double Fantasy was completed: "I need to free myself of the Lennon name." Her tender contributions to that album were inspired not by John, as everyone was led to believe, but by a man named Sam Green, her lover of the moment. And Lennon's tales of cozy domesticity in the Dakota, his Manhattan apartment house, did not stand up to Goldman's six years of research and interviews; servants handled...
RICHARD THOMPSON: AMNESIA (Capitol). He's a monster guitar player and a master songwriter, touching top form again on this brand-new album...
...slipped off too. Folkways was an ideal more than a thriving business. The Smithsonian Institution wanted to keep the label going under its own aegis, but the proposition was financially daunting. So Bob Dylan and Folklorist and Smithsonian Official Ralph Rinzler came up with the idea of a commemorative album. Instead of ponying up, musicians were asked to contribute their talents -- and royalties -- to help subsidize the Smithsonian investment and keep Folkways flowing. The result is not only a square deal but also a spectacular record...
With the Islamic Republic' s troops stunned by a string of battlefield defeats, the frail Ayatullah Khomeini grudgingly submits to "God' s will." -- Would peace between Iran and Iraq send oil prices skyward once again? -- Contra hard- liners threaten new battles in Nicaragua. -- An album of stark photographs from Ethiopia' s rebellious and famine- plagued province of Eritrea...